Snibston Primary School, Leicestershire: Headmaster Turned War Poet

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In the 192Os and 1930s, Arthur Newberry Choyce was the headmaster of the village school in Snibston. But during the war he had been the soldier poet of the Leicestershire regiment, was sent to the USA reading his poetry and appealing for new troops and even wrote the epitaph sent by the mothers of the British Empire to America's unknown warriors. BBC Radio Leicester’s Bridget Blair traces Arthur‘s war career and his growing reputation as a poet – and how the injuries received led to his relatively early death. Location: Snibston Primary School, Snibston, Coalville, Leicestershire LE67 2AR Image: Arthur Newberry Choyce, courtesy of Philip French